TextMate is a good text editor for people who never learned how to use Vim or Emacs. It acts more like a regular IDE editor. Its a great editor but if you know vim or emacs you probably wont get a ton out of it. Thats my opinion at least.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Chad Glendenin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chad@glendenin.com">chad@glendenin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I just got a MacBook Pro that I haven't even opened yet, but in theory<br>
it's going to be my primary workstation for Python and Django<br>
development. Is the upshot of all the psycopg2 trouble that I should<br>
just punt and use Mac OS X as a shiny, expensive front-end to an<br>
Ubuntu VM? If so, is VirtualBox sufficient, or would you recommend<br>
using one of the closed-source VMs like Parallels or VMware?<br>
<br>
Not to get too far off topic, but while we're talking about doing dev<br>
on Macs, what's the big deal with TextMate? I've been happily using<br>
Vim for years, and after looking over Chris Webber's shoulder, I've<br>
been thinking about trying to live in Emacs for a while (for smarter<br>
indentation, org mode, emacs-client sessions, etc.), but I'm wondering<br>
if I'm missing out on something. And whatever it is that TextMate<br>
does, couldn't we just implement it in gedit with Python plugins? To<br>
me, gedit looks like TextMate, except open-source and without the cult<br>
of DHH.<br>
<br>
ccg<br>
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Brennan Todd <<a href="mailto:brentodd@gmail.com">brentodd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I was able to get psycopg2 to compile with macports... after it downloaded<br>
> and compiled its own version of python 2.6, and postgres, and about 200<br>
> other things. It was the most ridiculous thing I had seen in a long time,<br>
> but it worked...<br>
><br>
> I've still got the .dmg file if you're interested.<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Chris McAvoy <<a href="mailto:chris.mcavoy@gmail.com">chris.mcavoy@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> As of late, I'm running Python in an Ubuntu VMWare image. Mainly<br>
>> because psycopg2 won't compile via easy_install or pip, and I don't<br>
>> want to spend any time figuring it out. I'm on Snow Leopard.<br>
>><br>
>> Chris<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Tim Head <<a href="mailto:betatim@gmail.com">betatim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Thanks everyone for their helpful advice.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I followed (more or less) Jesse's ideas on setting up a virtualenv as<br>
>> > the "default" python to use so that I can do what ever crazy thing I<br>
>> > want and not break the default python (and packages). Also means it is<br>
>> > easy to make a new virtualenv and try out lots of packages during a<br>
>> > rainy day and then just delete the whole thing to get rid of it again.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I will try homebrew as a package manager.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I'll also compile py3.x by hand with --prefix ;)<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Tim<br>
>> ><br>
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